Telephony



P. B. DELANY.

TELEPHONY. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5,191]. l 1 94,280. Patented Aug. 8, 1916.

rA'rEIoKE. D LANY, or soon: ORANGE, NEW JERSEY."

- TELEPHONY.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, PATRICK B. DELA'NY,

a citizen ofthe United States of America, residing at South Orange, county of Essex,

State of New Jersey, and at Nantucket, county of Nantucket, State of Massachusetts,

' have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Telephony, of which the following is'a specificationfl I My invention relates especially to dictation by telephone requiring "the spoken words to be recorded or transcribed by the person receiving the message.

The introduction of letter telegraphy has brought telephone dictation into extensive use. for collection of messages at the telegraph ofiice from subscribers. This im,

provement is not connected with transmis s1on orarticulatlon at the receiver, but 1s designed-for the betterment of the service as a. whole and aflords .the speaker perfect guidancein the matter ofspeed so as to keep the dictation .within the recording abilityof the receiving operator,-the speaker being able to follow the recordation of each word and regulate the rate of speaking accord-' v ingly. For this purpose my invention comprises novel means for transmission back to the sending-station of the vibrations, disturbances, jars, scrapings, gratings, or other efi'ects produced by the pen, pencil, stylus,

[typewriter or other recorder of; the message, whereby the speaker at the sending station hears dlstinctly the recording .of each word dictated andin this way can iI'nmediately follow one sentence or phrase with another without danger of speaking too fast and with perfect assurance that all the words have been recorded by the'receiving operator. The return transmission autoy matically effected, is a perfect guide. The speaker also knows whether the last'word is understoodby the receiver, for if not he does not hear the record making-he consequently repeats the word without any request from the receiver. In fact the insight of the. persontransmitting into the operation at the receiving end is almost equivalent to actual seeing of what is being done. Crossing of a standing on the pin 10.

t and dotting of an. i as well as punctuation are easily .recognizedand each word on account of its length and the long or short strokes of the letters may, practically,

be followed letter by letter when recorded by "pen or pencil. In this way; confusion arising. from vocal acknowledgments and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. a, 1916.

Application filed June 5, 1911. Serial No. 681,494.

delay due to the receiving operator waiting are avoided.

Although my invention broadly covers apparatus for sending tothe transmitting station any automatically effected progressiveacknowledgment of recordation, I show in the drawingsonly a few specific ways of accomplishing the results referred to, all bemg, however, based upon the same general principles. A

In the accompanying drawings: Figures 1 to 13 inclusive have detailed somewhat diagrammatic drawings 1 modifications.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, 1 indicates an ordinary desk telephone, 2 a transcribing board having a circular notch on one side and an arm 3 secured to the board, just insidethe notch, and that extends laterally and indicating various is formed with a hook at its end. The relation of the parts is shown-in Fig. 1. The

hook embraces the standard of the telephone I find the board lies upon the curved telephone ase.

'In Fig. 3, 4 indicates an ordinary micro-J phone mounted on a transcribing board 2.

The microphone is includedin a local batteryclrcuit 5 containing the primary coil6 of an induction coil, the secondary 7 of which. is in the telephone circuit.

Fig. 4 shows substantially the same ar- Fig. 5 shows a transcribing board with a circular notch 8 at one side and short feet9 at the other side. The board is to be pushed up against the standard of a desk telephone so that the notched end will be supported upon the base of the telephone and the opposite end will rest-upon the feet 9.

indicates three openings through the felt so,

- rangement except that the microphone 4 is I mounted on the under face of the board.

that the metal base of the telephone mayrest directly upon the pins 10. In. Fig. 7 a telephone stand is shown 'In Fig. 9, a transcribing board is provided at one end with a two-jawed clamp adapted to spring over and embrace the standardv of v a desk telephone. At the opposite end the spring metal clamp 13 under which may be pushed the base of of a desk telephone.

Fig. 11 indicates diagrammatically the keyboard part 14 of a typewriting machine having projecting laterally on one side, a spring arm 15 under which the base of a desk telephone may be pushed.

Fig. 12 shows diagrammatically the key board part of a typewriter carrying a standard 16 on which is suspended an ordinary microphone.

Fig. 13 shows an ordinary'desk telephone suspended from a fixed bracket hook 17 so that its base will be out of contact with the transcribing board 2. The telephone may be readily disengaged from the hook by the operator and placed upon the sounding board. In this case it is preferable that there shall be no felt covering on the bottom of the telephone base.

All the figures of the drawing represent various devices located at the reception end where received messages are transcribed either by pen, pencil or stylus on the transscribing board or by means of a typewriting machine; and in either or all cases, the sender of the message is apprised of the progress of its recordation. Of course, when the, receiving operator has recorded what he has received, he may tap on the sheet lying on the transmitting board to indicate to the sender that he is ready for more. When the recordation is done by means of a typewriter, the operator may transmit some microphone mounted thereon and securedthereto, and a battery circuit for said microphone connected with. the main telephone line.

2. The combination with a main telephone line, of a transmitter for the sending station, a receiver at the receiving station, a transmitter at the receiving station, a transcribing device at the receiving station insulated from extraneous sounds and mechanically connected with the transmitter at the receiving station whereby messages'received from the sending station may be transcribed at the receiving station and telephonic impulses corresponding in general characteris- -tics with the impulses received from the sending station may be sent back over the line to the sending station.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name.

PATRICK B. DELANY. Witnesses:

J. W. LARIsH, CHAS. E. PERKINS. 

